• Neuroscientists and psychologists have their theories, but for me it’s the way abstract art allows me to connect with colours,...

    Neuroscientists and psychologists have their theories, but for me it’s the way abstract art allows me to connect with colours, shapes, and textures on a visceral and individual level that is deeply satisfying. Often clients will say “I don’t know why I like it, I just do” - it’s the same for me.

     

    I’ve listed here a small selection of diverse abstractions from our collection, including an extraordinary work by Pierre Soulages, an absolute master of printmaking. If you’ve already bought a Corbusier chair and a Noguchi table, he’s a must-have! I’ve wanted to offer one of these to you for years but couldn’t find one at the right price – they’re so sought after. I doubt we’ll find one at such a reasonable price again.

     

    P. S. My wife, who is the fount of all knowledge on such matters, highly recommends the Soulages Museum in the artist’s home town of Rodez.

  • Pierre Soulages, Sérigraphie no. 18, 1988

    Pierre Soulages

    Sérigraphie no. 18, 1988
    Signed and numbered in pencil
    Screenprint in colours on wove paper
    Sheet: 89 x 68.5 cm
    Edition of 300 in Roman numerals
     
    £16,950
     
    Soulages was a renowned French painter whose abstract works focus on the interplay of light and texture, using deep blacks, browns or an intense blue paint to reflect and manipulate light across the canvas. Soulages was a central figure in post-war European art and maintained a highly original, minimalist style throughout his long career, earning international acclaim for the emotional depth and visual power of his monochromatic works. His works are scarce, beautiful and highly sought after.
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  • Joan Miró, One plate; from Fissures (1969)

    Joan Miró

    One plate; from Fissures (1969)

    Signed in pencil in lower right

    Aquatint in colours on BFK Rives paper

    Sheet: 48.5 x 58 cm

    From the edition of unknown size (aside from the edition of 75 plus 20 HC and additional proofs)

     

    £6,950

     

    Miró’s fondness for calligraphic lines and rich blooms of colour lent itself naturally to graphic work. In a career spanning over five decades he produced around 2,000 prints in a variety of media.

     

    These works are full of wit and visual delight. They demonstrate Miró’s unique fusion of abstraction and Surrealist fantasy. In these images, everything is held in perfect balance. They magic up an entire world out of nowhere. Given their importance within the artist's life and work, they also represent incredible value.

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  • Bridget Riley, Fold (2004)

    Bridget Riley

    Fold (2004)

    Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil

    Screenprint in colours on Fabriano 5 paper

    Sheet: 44.4 x 38 cm

    Edition of 250 plus 20 AP

     

    £11,000

     

    Riley was cautious to introduce colour to her work. Her black and white paintings depended on the disruption of stable elements. No such stable basis could be found for colour as the perception of colour is relative; each colour affects and is affected by the colours next to it. Over time, she began to accept this inherent instability and made it the basis of her work.

     

    In 1997 she began to introduce a curvilinear element to her images, a theme that took a further two years to fully develop. These images expressed a sense of raucous movement and rhythm that might have become uncontrollable had Riley not sought to slow them down by expanding the scale and volume of the motif. These works represent a small, contained fragment of the wild.

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  • Eduardo Chillida, Mas Allá (Beyond) (1973)

    Eduardo Chillida

    Mas Allá (Beyond) (1973)

    Signed and inscribed in pencil (in the margin)

    Woodcut on wove paper

    Sheet: 38 x 32 cm

    Edition of 150 plus 25 HC copies and additional proofs

     

    £3,950

     

    Eduardo Chillida is best known for his monumental sculptures that turn rigid, unforgiving materials such as iron, steel, and granite into interconnected, often organically curved forms. The artist—whose practice also included printmaking, drawing, and wood and plaster sculpture—took inspiration from his travels around Italy, Greece, and France as well as the industry, architecture, agriculture, and landscape in his native Basque region. This stunning woodcut is a perfect example of his acclaimed work as a printmaker. This is a piece to lose yourself in.

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  • Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1927)

    Piet Mondrian

    Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1927)

    Screenprint in colours

    Sheet: 43 x 43 cm

    Edition of 150

     

    £4,950

     

    This piece comes from the sought-after portfolio of screenprints published in 1967. Ives-Sillman, Inc was one of only a handful of publishers to produce silkscreen prints and photographs as part of their artist monographs. Over two decades from 1958 until Ives's death in 1978, Norman Ives and Sewell Sillman collaborated with some of the most important artists of their time including Josef Albers, Robert Indiana and Ellsworth Kelly.

     

    The ten paintings reproduced in this portfolio demonstrate the very best of Mondrian's work. Published in an edition of only 150, these screenprints are a must for fans of Modernism's purest exponent. A set is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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